Mount Auburn Cemetery

Historic Master Plan | Cambridge, Massachusetts

Halvorson Design Partnership produced the first comprehensive master plan for Mount Auburn Cemetery, America’s oldest garden cemetery. The award-winning plan, recognized as a major contribution to the field of historic landscape preservation, addressed Mount Auburn’s parallel goals: (a) preserving its remarkable landscape, and (b) expanding burial and memorialization opportunities for the public. Halvorson Design continues to serve the cemetery with technical advice and designs that implement the plan.

The design also included a landscape plan for the cemetery’s Bigelow Chapel, site design for improved accessibility at Storey Chapel and new interment areas at Birch Garden. The firm continues to serve the cemetery with technical advice and designs that implement the plan.